STEVE FOX is the Director of Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) for SharePoint and Windows Azure. He regularly speaks to developers about SharePoint, Offi ce, and cloud development, at both domestic and international conferences. Steve has authored many articles and books, including Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox, 2010) and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications on Windows Azure (MSPress, 2011). He has worked at Microsoft for 12 years and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.

DONOVAN FOLLETTE is a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Microsoft with more than 25 years of experience developing enterprise business applications on a variety of platforms. He currently specializes in helping to enable developers in building integrated line-of-business (LOB) solutions with Microsoft Offi ce and SharePoint 2010.

GIRISH RAJA is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft's Redmond campus. In this role, Girish helps the community learn various development features of SharePoint and provides guidance for building applications using its platform. He also works on demonstrating how well SharePoint integrates with other Microsoft technologies through his blog and various channel9 videos. Prior to this role, he was an Evangelist for Dynamics CRM.

PAUL STUBBS is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for Azure, SharePoint, and Office, where he focuses on the information worker development community around SharePoint and Offi ce, Silverlight, and cloud computing. He has authored several books on solution development using Microsoft Offi ce, SharePoint, and Silverlight, as well as several articles for MSDN Magazine, and has also spoken at Microsoft Tech-Ed, PDC, SharePoint Conference, DevConnections, and MIX conferences. Paul has also worked as a Senior Program Manager on Visual Studio in Redmond, Washington. Paul is a Microsoft Certifi ed Trainer (MCT) and frequently participates in the developer community on the Microsoft forums. Visit Paul’s blog at blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs for deep SharePoint developer information.

CHAPTER 1 Getting Started with SharePoint and the Cloud 1

CHAPTER 2 Using SQL Azure for Business Intelligence 21

CHAPTER 3 Building a Windows Azure-Based Service 51

CHAPTER 4 Creating an Aggregated Solution Using Cloud-Based Data 83

CHAPTER 5 Connecting LinkedIn and SharePoint Profi le Data 113

CHAPTER 6 Using Twitter in Your SharePoint Solutions 139

CHAPTER 7 Using Bing Maps in Your SharePoint Business Solutions 173

CHAPTER 8 Financial Modeling with Excel Services and Windows Azure 205

CHAPTER 9 Creating a Training Application in SharePoint Online 257

CHAPTER 10 Managing Customer Information in SharePoint Online 275

CHAPTER 11 Securing Cloud Solutions Using Claims-Based Authentication 309

INDEX 337

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